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jitu757 wrote:
I went to my local art supply store (Jerry's Artorama) and they carry 2 types of canvas cloth, primed and un-primed in cotton and linen. The primed are crazy expensive while un-primed are super cheap. I wasn't sure which to get but the people at the art store said that I should get the primed because if I paint over it and and roll it up or fold it then the paint won't crack or peel off. The reason I didn't get their primed canvas is because they would only sell me the entire roll and not by the yard which was weird because I was told over the phone that they sell canvas by the yard.
Anyway, I bought the un-primed canvas and after I got home I realized that I have some drop cloth from Lowe's that I had used when I painted our bedroom and the material looks the same and cost less.
So, back to your comment. Have you used canvas for any of your photoshoot? Did you paint them?...Show more →
Buy a tub of gesso and prime the canvas yourself, though gesso isn't cheap. And once done paint it all the wonderful colors you want. I do it all the time BTW..
Usually for half body portraits you can get away with buying stretched canvas already on a frame, it's easier to paint that way to. But for what you have in a roll, you just lay it out on the garage floor over some plastic garbage bags, gesso it, then after it dries, paint it the way you want.
In this case, start with your lightest grey first, paint the whole canvas that color, then take a slightly darker shade and paint a very strong vignette, water the paint down quite a bit nearer to the middle of the canvas so it's a muted color, then the darkest color and paint a strong vignette and also water it down near to boundaries..
Keep in mind to buy acrylic paint (easier to work with), but tell the art store you plan on rolling it up, they'll have paint that has better pigment, and paint that has better bonding agents, usually good (expensive) paint has best of both, but in your case you only really need a good bonding paint. Then once all that is done and over with, last step if you want, you buy a matte finish spray, and turn the canvas matte, it'll photograph better.
I've done that in the past and it's worked very well.
Ummm that or jump on Ebay and look up Muslin backgrounds grey/black and you'll find something close to what she has.
Oh and BTW, some paints you don't really need gesso with, and they'll work just fine, also there are dyes out there that'll work great, and in some cases are cheaper to buy but harder to use.
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